Word: electioneered
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The Cambridge rent control referendum campaign suffered an all-but-fatal blow yesterday afternoon. Middlesex County Superior Court Judge Henry Leen ruled that a rent control referendum cannot appear on the City's November 4 election ballot.
Cambridge City Solicitor Philip M. Cronin said last night that Leen had dismissed a writ of mandamus petitioned by members of the Peace and Freedom Party and the Cambridge Housing convention. The writ asked the court to overturn a ruling by the Cambridge Election Commission that the rent control bill...
Members of the Peace and Freedom Party said last night they would appeal Leen's decision, but said it might be impossible to get a new ruling before the election. Ron Stoia, a member of the party. said that whatever the fate of the refereadum campaign, "people should enforce their...
The lawyers further argued that the election commission has no right to decide the legality of an issue but should merely perform the "ministerial" function of checking to find if all requirements for a referendum have been fulfilled.
The other major issue likely to divide the two caucuses concerns Faculty self-government. Liberal Faculty seem determined to make the Faculty a self-governing body and to minimize the role of the administration in Faculty affairs. They consequently favor the election of members to any new governing group, such...